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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #68 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about how Nitter was just sent a cease and desist from X (Twitter) raising concerns over other frontends suffering the same fate. We'll also be covering the latest privacy & security news! 👋 Come and watch and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/AJiE86HczSDH #Privacy #Security #PrivacyGuides

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #69 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about how Google may have removed a key security feature from their Pixel 11 devices. We'll also be covering the latest privacy & security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/gibGKqSHWvCC #Privacy #GrapheneOS #Security

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #70 is live! We'll be talking about the latest Apple announcements, particularly the new Apple Watch functions that seem to be always listening. We'll also be covering the latest privacy & security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://www.youtube.com/@PrivacyGuides/live

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #72 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about F-Droid releasing their 2.0 update, the biggest update to the app in years. We'll also be covering the latest #privacy & #security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/yqMm23pdPQ7m #privacy #fdroid #security

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  In 2016, a locked iPhone 5C sparked a massive showdown between Apple and the FBI. When the US government demanded Apple push a modified compromised update to bypass iOS Security, it created a national debate: Where does individual privacy end and public safety begin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LSaATxA6g

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  Our little story on Apple's war with the FBI has really gone viral! We're thrilled people are so interested in this piece of security/privacy history 😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LSaATxA6g

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  🚨 This Week in Privacy #73 is live! We’re covering Reddit’s latest moves to limit anonymous access, including requiring users to log in to view old.reddit.com, discontinuing RSS feeds, and ending public API access. We'll also be talking about the latest #privacy & #security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/4CSyzqGkQnnY

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  DAF Day 2026 is here. A nationwide celebration of generosity through Donor-Advised Funds. When you make a DAF gift to Privacy Guides today, you’re helping us defend digital rights and spread the word about mass surveillance programs and other daily privacy invasions in our modern society. Here’s how you can take part: ✅ Decide which organizations to support with your DAF - like Privacy Guides to help digital rights activism ✅ Give easily and get counted in today's impact by giving thr...

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  🚨 This Week in Privacy #74 will be live in 30 minutes! Leaked internal documents show that Meta's Muse AI agent is building dossiers on your friends, family and you, even if you've never used it before! We'll also be talking about the latest #privacy & #security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://www.youtube.com/@privacyguides/live

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  Hey everyone, come test out the new Privacy Guides community on Fluxer! 🥳 I think Fluxer will be familiar to people who used Discord back when Discord was more normal, and I think Fluxer will seem pretty awesome to people who have only used the current bloated form of Discord. Come join and give us feedback about whether we should stick with Fluxer in the long term! https://fluxer.gg/hFrcmH7G #Fluxer #Chat #PrivacyGuides #Discord #Community

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  🚨 This Week in Privacy #75 will be live in 30 minutes! Ledger has confirmed that hardware implants were found in cold-storage devices sold through reseller networks, silently recording seed phrases and draining user wallets via LTE! We'll also be talking about the latest #privacy & #security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://www.youtube.com/@privacyguides/live

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  💬 How does your Instant Messenger stack up? We created a tier-list video ranking them all from best to worst! 🥇 Did your favorite messenger get put in S-tier? Watch our video to find out! ⬇️ https://neat.tube/w/fbmjiELxhBgmW1oro95gtm #privacy #messenger #security

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #71 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about Signal finally allowing you to register an account without a phone number. We'll also be covering the latest #privacy & #security news! 👋 Come watch and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/kbz5sCPWAYBA

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  ⚠️ Big tech's privacy promises are misleading! 🎤 We sat down with Melanie Ensign, CEO of @Discernible@infosec.exchange and former communications lead for Facebook, Uber, AT&T, and DEF CON. In this interview she pulls back the curtain on how these large tech corporations actually approach privacy. Watch the interview here ⬇️ https://neat.tube/w/57bdLTrK3s5AjRc9w4MrE5

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #63 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about Mullvad's Co-owner making a controversial political donation and covering the latest privacy & security news. 👋 Come and watch and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/NNm8upugtSDH #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #61 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about Apple adding a keylogger to the iOS app store, and covering the latest privacy & security news. 👋 Join us live and join the Q&A! https://streamyard.com/watch/79rJJX3uyKRh #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #60 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about CalyxOS coming back with a stable build, and covering the latest privacy & security news. 👋 Come join and chat with us live! https://streamyard.com/watch/UmsGvk7XdZcn #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

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  Privacy Guides is building a database of Android app signing certificate hashes to help make it easier to verify app integrity. 🤖 We need your help! 🫵 We need you to submit any apps you have installed on your phone that we can add to our database. 📱 https://github.com/privacyguides/verified-apps

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #52 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be giving our thoughts on CalyxOS returning with an Android 16 test build and we will also be covering the latest in privacy & security news. 🗞️ Come say hi and chat with us live! 😊 https://www.youtube.com/@privacyguides/live or https://streamyard.com/watch/gaehAHBzCVfT #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #53 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll discuss Android 17 bringing some great privacy & security improvements and the latest in privacy & security news. Come say hi and chat with us live! 😊 https://streamyard.com/watch/uhewTDZTQ8DS #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

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  🚨 This Week In Privacy #54 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about Google's new creepy AI glasses 😱 👓 and covering the latest privacy & security news. Come say hi and chat with us live! 😊 https://streamyard.com/watch/y3TJWqrmAjCN #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

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  Advocate for privacy & digital rights in your local community: We have new designs available in the Privacy Guides shop, designed by (human!) hand by our resident designer @Em0nM4stodon 😎 🥃 New drinkware is now available at https://shop.privacyguides.org/collections/drinkware All proceeds from this store are helping us to continue our mission to advocate for privacy and empowering you with the knowledge you need to fight for your digital rights. #PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Merch #BlackF...

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  It's Data Privacy Week ✨ There's never been a better time to take back your privacy, that's why we'll be sharing new tips every day that'll help you improve your privacy & security posture. 🔒 #DataPrivacyWeek #Privacy #PrivacyTips #PrivacyGuides

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  Privacy isn't just about the tools. It also isn't just about the laws. And it isn't just about the practices either. For privacy to become the default, we must consider technology, law, and culture altogether. 🌐 Learn more on how to evaluate the whole landscape. 🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Keep in Mind the Whole Landscape: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-keep-in-mind-the-whole-landscape/ #PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistTo...

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  We're Privacy Guides, a non-profit project & community focused on personal data security and privacy. 👋 Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, our right to privacy hasn't always been upheld. In several dictatorships, it still isn't. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right, inherent to all of us, that we are entitled to (without discrimination). You shouldn't confus...

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  The top story in cybersecurity this week is about a US app negligently leaking a trove of government IDs, meanwhile the UK government is completely confident that ID verification is totally safe 🤪

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  We're thrilled to announce the next section of our Privacy Activism resources! 🎉 📑 The Data Protection Authority Directory is a new tool to help you find the main consumer privacy law in your region, and the authority mandated to enforce that law. We sincerely hope our DPA Directory will be a useful tool for building your knowledge about what privacy protections you're entitled to. Paired with our resource on reporting privacy violations in our Privacy Activist Toolbox, you can take a...

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  Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online. We sat down with @taylorlorenz to dissect these 'Bad Internet Bills' and what you need to know to stop them: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/12/16/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-screen-act-and-repealing-section-230/ :peertube: http...

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  We're moving off https://mastodon.social to give that instance some room to breathe. The fediverse's greatest asset is federation right? We should do our part to support smaller instances 😃 Followers should follow this new account automatically (eventually), so you won't miss out on any updates from us!